Drive burning so damn slowwwww... HELP!

[JackRipper]

Just bought a dell 9200 w the 1.8 core 2 duo

found out there were no IDE ports so I installed a promise 133tx2 ide card...

the main drive is a 320 sata connected via sata port

an Nec 3520 is attached to an ide channel and another ide hd is attached on the same channel

Here is the issue:

MY DRIVE EVEN WHEN SET TO 16X burns at 1.7x grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr its taking like 35-40mins to burn 1 fricken disk...

Steps I've taken to fix the situation, not in any particular order:

Checked if drives were in DMA mode. This is a bitch because no longer is there a primary/secondary ide controller in the windows device manager.... the onboard Sata controller is listed under SCSI as well as the installed Promise IDE controller card... Both are listed under SCSI... so THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO OPTION TO FIND OUT OR TO CHANGE THE DRIVES TO DMA... i am so pissed off...

Bang my head on the table...

Updating firmware of the NEC 3520

Reinstalling all burning software

Tried burning with PowerISO/Nero/Alcohol = same sh1t results

Kicked the cat, beat the wife...

Okay please help me i am frustrated... Burning dvd disks at 1.7x is like trying to get winxp to load on a pent1...grrrrr


JR

 

[amdskip]

I would guess it has to have something to do with the Promise card. I wonder if you installed a sata burner or a sata->ide adapter if it would help.

 

[JackRipper]

i dunno.. but there is no reason that i cannot force enable dma mode on the promise card... i mean the drives detect fine, everything is okay

then i realize how slow it is to xfer things from one drive to another

and burning took 30+ minutes per disk... its driving me nuts

i found a similar problem on CDfreaks... they have a dell 9200 also... and they are using the SATA burner drive... i gave mine away since i liked my old ide one (bitset fw + other stuff)

like the OP that posted on CDfreaks i thought it was nero too... so i tried others and no luck...

trying to find a utility that forces windows to do UDMA on all drives...

JR

edit: did more searches on google... seems like this is a fricken unique problem...w hat to do what to do what to do,.....

 

[pkrush]

Try switching to a SATA to IDE adapter. Some of the Dells with no IDE didn't include the proper code in the BIOS to run a PCI IDE card.

 

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by: pkrush
Try switching to a SATA to IDE adapter. Some of the Dells with no IDE didn't include the proper code in the BIOS to run a PCI IDE card.

() this sux...

the thing is my drives under the IDE cards detect no problem... just that i think they are in PIO mode because burning + symptoms are very similar to when the drives revert to PIO mode....

 

[jackschmittusa]

I used to run an NEC 3540a on an old Promise ide card and it worked fine with no tweaking or settings adjustment.

Is the drive set to "Master"? Using a good data cable? Try putting the card in a higher PCI slot (old time solution, might be meaningless with a modern mb).

 

[JackRipper]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
I used to run an NEC 3540a on an old Promise ide card and it worked fine with no tweaking or settings adjustment.

Is the drive set to "Master"? Using a good data cable? Try putting the card in a higher PCI slot (old time solution, might be meaningless with a modern mb).

yeah lolz... i tried switching pci slots praying on luck but no dice... the promise card worked fine on other systems... i know its not the card...

i really think it's a dell issue... i've searched deeper and found some new nvidia core2duo bio's did the same thing

the really jacked up thing is winxp recognizes everything that is non onboard ide as SCSI peripherals so no settings for master/slave

-jr

 

[JackRipper]

^^ bump anyone????


i guess i mite have to shell out for a sata dvdr zzzz i have like 8 ide burners leftover from a duplicator.

 

[3chordcharlie]

If the bios doesn't know what to do with IDE, XP drivers won't help much, so check for updates.

The only time I've had problems with slow burning, they were caused by a poor power supply. I don't know if there's any way for you to test this.

You could also switch to an external enclosure, which has its own set of ups and downs. With your system, it shouldn't cause a slowdown though, even on usb2.